Είναι το Ισλάμ

 

Το Ισλάμ παρουσίασε την φυλή «Γκουραγίς» (Quraysh=Ήταν η κυρίαρχη φυλή στην περιοχή της Μέκκας, στην οποία ανήκε ο Μωάμεθ και μέσω της οποίας εξαπλώθηκε ο Ισλαμισμός στην αραβική χερσόνησο), ως «εκλεκτή φυλή» για να εξουσιάσει όλες τις ανθρώπινες φυλές. Ο Μωάμεθ δεν έδινε ενιαία πολιτική ευθύνη σε ένα άτομο που δεν ήταν από τη φυλή του. Το Ισλάμ έχει νομιμοποιήσει η δουλεία, ενίσχυσε το χάσμα μεταξύ των κοινωνικών τάξεων και επέτρεψε την ληστεία των άπιστων, την αιχμαλωσία (Sabaya) των γυναικών κατά τη διάρκεια πολέμων και την σεξουαλική κακοποίηση των γυναικών σκλάβων (Ima’a). Έχει καταστρέψει σοβαρά την έγγαμη σχέση με τους νόμους της προίκας (Mahr) και το διαζύγιο, μετατρέποντας έτσι τον θεσμό του γάμου σε μια κοινή συναλλαγή.

Είναι το Ισλάμ μια θρησκεία της κοινωνικής δικαιοσύνης;
Μερικές από τις πιο εξωφρενικές αρχές που το Ισλάμ έχει θεσπίσει, είναι οι λεηλασίες και οι ληστείες, καθώς και η εκμετάλλευση των ανθρώπων που καταπιέζονται από το φορολογικό σύστημα «Αλ Τζίζγια» (Al-Jizya). Αναγνώρισε την κοινωνική ανισότητα, επιβάλλοντας την «Ζακάτ» (Zakat=Ελεημοσύνη· υποχρέωση δηλαδή να δίνει κάποιος εύπορος μουσουλμάνος, ένα ποσοστό του εισοδήματός του στους φτωχούς μουσουλμάνους, συμβάλλοντας έτσι στον εξαγνισμό της υπόλοιπης περιουσίας του), σύμφωνα με το ακόλουθο ρητό: «Ένας ευγνώμων πλούσιος είναι καλύτερος από έναν ασθενή φτωχό».

Είναι το Ισλάμ δίκαιο για τις γυναίκες;
Μια γυναίκα στο Ισλάμ έχει λιγότερη λογική και πίστη. Διακόπτει την προσευχή, όπως τα γαϊδούρια και τα μαύρα σκυλιά και θεωρείται ακάθαρτη κατά την έμμηνο ρύση. Έχει δικαίωμα μόνο στο ήμισυ της περιουσίας που κληρονομεί, σε αντίθεση με έναν άνδρα, και η μαρτυρία της στο δικαστήριο, μετράει, επίσης, κατά το ήμισυ ενός ανδρός. Το Ισλάμ την έβαλε κάτω από την κηδεμονία του συζύγου της και με την «έγκριση» του Θεού να τον υπακούει. Ένας άνδρας έχει επίσης το δικαίωμα να «επαναφέρει στην τάξη» την σύζυγό του, χτυπώντας την, ή/και εγκαταλείποντας τη συζυγική κλίνη, εάν αυτή αρνηθεί να ικανοποιήσει τις ερωτικές του ορέξεις, όποτε αυτός επιθυμήσει, ανεξαρτήτως από τις δικές της επιθυμίες και συναισθήματα. Δεν είμαι φεμινιστής και δεν είμαι ένας από εκείνους που υπερασπίζονται τις γυναίκες με πάθος εναντίον των αναρίθμητων μορφών της αδικίας που υπέστησαν για αιώνες λόγω της θρησκείας, αλλά έχω μια μάνα, μια αδελφή και μια φίλη και δεν ανέχομαι να ταπεινώνονται και να στιγματίζονται με τέτοιον έντονο τρόπο, επειδή τις αγαπώ πάρα πολύ για να τις μεταχειριστώ μ’ αυτόν τον εσφαλμένο και ανατριχιαστικό τρόπο που απομυθοποιεί αναμφίβολα τον ισχυρισμό ότι το Ισλάμ είναι μια θρησκεία της ισότητας και της ελευθερίας!

Ισλάμ και ανθρώπινη δημιουργικότητα
Όλες οι μορφές καλλιτεχνικής έκφρασης είναι απαγορευμένες στο Ισλάμ: Μουσική, τραγούδι, χορός, ζωγραφική, γλυπτική, υποκριτική, αλλά και η λογοτεχνία, η ποίηση, η φιλοσοφία, ακόμα και η χρήση της λογικής! Εάν δυσκολεύεστε να τα πιστέψετε αυτά, θα σας παραπέμπω στις αξιόπιστες ισλαμικές πηγές, καθώς και σε ρήσεις του Μωάμεθ για να σιγουρευτείτε πως δεν υπερβάλλω και θέτω μόνο την αυστηρή αλήθεια.

Ισλάμ και επιστήμη
Το Ισλάμ είναι πλούσιο σε αλληγορίες. Ξεκινώντας με το μύθο του Χρησμού (ο λόγος του Θεού που κοινοποιήθηκε στον Μωάμεθ μέσω του άγγελου Γαβριήλ), και με την διαδρομή μέσω του λεγόμενου Νυχτερινού Ταξιδιού και Αναλήψεως (Al-Isra’a & Al-Me’eraj), όταν ο Μωάμεθ που υποτίθεται ότι αναλήφθηκε στους ουρανούς στην πλάτη ενός φανταστικού ζώου που ονομάζονταν «Μπουράκ» (Burâaq) πετώντας με την ταχύτητα του φωτός, να τελειώσω με την εκθαμβωτικές ιστορίες των θαυμάτων που κανείς δεν έχει δει και κανένας πολιτισμός δεν έχει εγγράψει στα ιστορικά αρχεία του, ούτε αναφέρονται περιστατικά που θα μπορούσε να υποστηρίξει κάποιος τους ισχυρισμούς αυτούς. Το Ισλάμ επομένως, βασίζεται στην τυφλή πίστη που αναπτύσσεται και παίρνει τον έλεγχο των μυαλών των ανθρώπων, όπου υπάρχει παραλογισμός και άγνοια. Εάν αυτή η ιδεολογία είχε το προσόν της πειθούς με την έκκληση στη λογική και έχει αντιμετωπίσει κάθε πτυχή της ανθρώπινης ζωής, όπως εμείς οι πρώην μουσουλμάνοι έχουμε πει από τότε που μπορούμε να θυμηθούμε, γιατί θα κατέφευγε σε απίστευτες εκκεντρικές ιστορίες για να αποδείξει την ακρίβειά της και να υποστηρίξει τις ιδέες της; Δεν είναι αυτό αντάξιο ψευτών κι απατεώνων; Μην ξεχνάμε τις κραυγαλέες αντιφάσεις μεταξύ των ιερών κειμένων και τις βασικές επιστημονικές αλήθειες, όπως το γεγονός ότι η γη είναι σταθερή και ότι ο ουρανός υψώνεται πάνω από το έδαφος και κρατιέται χωρίς κολόνες, και ότι οι μετεωρίτες έγιναν για το σκοπό του λιθοβολισμού των δαιμόνων που κυριεύουν τους ανθρώπους από ψηλά.

Τα επιστημονικά θαύματα στο Κοράνι
Όλοι εμείς οι πρώην μουσουλμάνοι, γνωρίζουμε τον παραλογισμό, την πλαστογραφία και την απάτη των σεΐχηδων που ισχυρίζονται την ύπαρξη επιστημονικών θαυμάτων στο Κοράνι και θεωρώ ότι είναι θεμιτό να αναρωτηθούμε γιατί οι άνθρωποι αυτοί να κατασκευάζουν το ένα κολοσσιαίο ψέμα μετά το άλλο, γύρω από τη θρησκεία. Η απάντηση είναι απλή: Μόνο ένας ιστός από ψέματα είναι σε θέση να διαιωνίσει ένα άλλο ψέμα. Το Ισλάμ δεν θα μπορούσε να κρατηθεί για πολύ μπροστά από την επιστήμη που αποκαλύπτει τους μύθους και τις αναμφισβήτητες αδυναμίες του, τον έναν μετά τον άλλον, όπως είναι ο ισχυρισμός ότι η γη είναι επίπεδη και ότι δύο άτομα που έχουν θηλάσει από την ίδια γυναίκα γίνονται βιολογικά αδέλφια. Αυτοί οι άνθρωποι προστατεύουν το Ισλάμ και προλαμβάνουν την απογύμνωση και τον θάνατό του, προσπαθώντας απεγνωσμένα να το συμβιβάσουν με την επιστήμη, χρησιμοποιώντας απατηλά μέσα και στρεβλώσεις. Αν το Ισλάμ ήταν μια θεϊκή θρησκεία και ένα μήνυμα στάλθηκε από τον δημιουργό του σύμπαντος, θα ήταν ο περίγελος της επιστημονικής σφαίρας και στόχος ατελείωτης κριτικής;

Ο ισλαμικός Θεός
Είναι ένας πρωτόγονος, Βεδουίνος και ανθρωπόμορφος Θεός που αντλεί τους χαρακτήρες του από τον ανθρώπινο κόσμο και βιώνει τα συναισθήματα του θυμού, της εκδίκησης, της μνησικακίας, της υπεροχής, κ.λπ. Η εικόνα του Θεού που έχει απεικονιστεί στα ισλαμικά ιερά κείμενα, λίγο πολύ αντικατοπτρίζει τους ανθρώπινους πολιτισμούς, όπως και ο μεγαλοπρεπής θρόνος που μεταφέρεται από τους αγγέλους, στον οποίο σωριάστηκε όταν τελείωσε την διαδικασία της δημιουργίας, που φέρνει στον νου το τελετουργικό των Χόνγκα Μπόνγκα (Honga-Bonga) που εκτελούν οι κεφαλές της φυλής τους. Ακόμη χειρότερα, ορισμένες ανθρώπινες ενέργειες, όπως ο ομοφυλοφιλικός έρωτας (στον οποίο ακόμα και οι Χόνγκα Μπόνγκα δεν παρεμβαίνουν), μπορεί να κάνει αυτόν τον υπέροχο θρόνο να ταρακουνηθεί. Εδώ είναι ένα υπερβατικό «χαντίθ» (hadith=παράδοση γύρω από την συμπεριφορά και τη σοφία του Μωάμεθ) που τράβηξε την προσοχή μου: «Κάθε έργο που επιτέλεσε ο γιος του Αδάμ αφορά μόνο τον εαυτό του, με εξαίρεση τη νηστεία που είναι δικό μου και την ανταμοίβω». Το ερώτημα που με βασανίζει είναι το εξής: Τι ευχαρίστηση μπορεί να βρει ο Παντοδύναμος Θεός σε όλους αυτούς τους φτωχούς ανθρώπους που τον λατρεύουν; Τι καλό του έχουν κάνει;

Ο προφήτης του Ισλάμ και το Κοράνι
Ο Μωάμεθ δεν ήταν διαφορετικός από τους βάρβαρους κακοποιούς οι οποίοι έσφαζαν, λήστευαν και βίαζαν γυναίκες· υπάρχουν πολλές αποδείξεις στη «Σούνα» (Sunnah=παράδοση των όσων είπαν και έπραξαν ο Μωάμεθ και τα μέλη της πρώτης ισλαμικής κοινότητας). Σας καλώ να κάνετε μια εργασία πριν με κατηγορήσετε ότι ψεύδομαι με μοναδικό σκοπό να βλάψω την εικόνα του προφήτη του Ισλάμ. Ήταν ένας ερωτομανής, και διέσυρε όλους τους νόμους που έχει θεσπίσει για να κατευνάσουν την αδηφάγο επιθυμία του. Δίχασε την ανθρωπότητα και φυλάκισε το έθνος με τους καθυστερημένους και ξεπερασμένους νόμους των Βεδουίνων. Δεν πραγματοποίησε κανένα θαύμα που θα μπορούσε να αποδείξει την προφητεία του. Όλα ό,τι είχε, ήταν ένα βιβλίο που παρουσιάζει έντονες ομοιότητες με την ποίηση των συγχρόνων του, γεμάτη από επιστημονικά λάθη και φιλοσοφικά διλήμματα.

Συμπέρασμα: Μάλλον θα πρέπει να γράψω ένα ολόκληρο βιβλίο για να μιλήσει λεπτομερώς και επαρκώς σχετικά με τους λόγους που με οδήγησαν να αποκηρύξω το Ισλάμ ως θρησκεία, αλλά αυτά τα λίγα στοιχεία που παρατίθενται είναι τα πιο σημαντικά πράγματα που μου κέντρισαν το ενδιαφέρον και με έσπρωξαν να επανεξετάσω την ουσία αυτής της κούφιας πίστης η οποία, όπως κάθε άλλη θρησκεία, σαν μυθική ιδεολογία τίθεται στην υπηρεσία της πολιτικής.

Θερμές ευχές,
Waleed Al-Husseini

This is the confession of a former homosexual

 

Constantine, who always used to sit in the last rows of the church, got up - with obvious hesitation at first - and walked up to old Anastasy. As he walked to the pulpit, he noticed that everyone was looking at him in a strange manner. He could see a vague look of wonder in the eyes of the churchgoers, while he was wondering why old Anastasy invited only him to stand by him, during the reading of the letter.

Something unusual was however prompting him, so, after a quick glance at his beloved Katerina, he asked old Anastasy to say a few words in memory of Crazy John. Old Anastasy intended that the letter be read first, then Constantine would have been asked to speak. But father Vassily intervened, saying:

"Let the boy speak first, Anastasy".

With his head lowered Constantine approached the microphone.

"I regard and perceive myself as the worst miasma that has ever existed in mankind. I furthermore know that you all confront me as a miasma of society, on account of my prior sinful activity. You are absolutely right to do so. That is how I deserve to be confronted by you because with the life I led, I not only harmed myself but also those near me - that means you all - but also all those that I caught in the meshes of iniquity. So, I am taking the opportunity that mister Anastasy is giving me, to ask each one of you personally to forgive me. I don't even deserve your forgiveness, because I have harmed you more than you could ever imagine. I harmed our town, our district, and our neighborhood. I harmed friends and acquaintances of mine, and parents and relatives because, with my lifestyle, I had brought the mire of debauchery into your everyday lives.

This downhill slide that I had taken was ended once and for all by Crazy John. The prayers of that fool released me from the clutches, not only of one demon but of an entire legion that had lodged inside me.

I was a transvestite for almost ten years. I believed at the time that happiness could be found in the ephemeral pleasure that bodily contact can arouse. I dressed provocatively; I used to be furious with people. I confronted life as though it were a vessel for pleasures, which I had to make sure I filled, on a daily basis. I experienced the mire of Hell, more than a human mind could ever imagine. That is why I used to regularly change my place of residence since society had rightly perceived me as an outcast. And that was essentially what I was.  I believed that quarrels, insults, and disappointments were the best kinds of defense, in my literally vehement obsession to pursue something that deviated from what was socially correct - from the ideals and the values of the Gospel. At the time, I had looked upon my illness as a human right, and was under the illusion that it was an outright normal thing - a thing that nowadays, even top-level leaders tend to advertise as a mere supposed "otherness".

So, there wasn't a single police station in Athens that didn't know me. There wasn't a single courtroom where I hadn't been a "customer" - either as an accused, for having offended virtuous behavior, or as a witness for the defense or for the prosecution, in various, related cases. I was under the illusion that with my overall immoral activity, I was serving a silent revolution in favor of the acceptance of homosexuality. Hunted as I was, I arrived at your neighborhood too, and presented myself to the kindly, poor old lady Chrysoula, to ask her to let her one-room apartment to me.  That is where I saw Crazy John for the very first time; he had brought over some bread to the almost destitute old woman.

Unlike most other tenants, I wasn't asked too many things by old Chrysoula. She just mentioned that the 30.000 drachmas she was asking for were the only income she would have, to make ends meet; so she asked me to not delay my payments because she had to pay for the bills, the building maintenance, as well as to buy her other basic needs.

"Oh, my dear child Constantine, God must have sent you! The apartment hasn't been rented out for three months and I am living off the help I get from misterApostolis the baker and Mister Pantelis the grocer here, who send me bread and provisions with this fool here", she said, pointing to Crazy John.

"But I never sent you any bread Chrysoula, as I wasn't aware of your situation" Apostolis spontaneously remarked. 

"Nor have I ever sent you any provisions", Pantelis added.

"But that's what Crazy John told me!!" old Chrysoula replied, totally at a loss...

After this small and "endearing" intervention, Constantine continued:

"Crazy John always used to conceal his good deeds... He may have brought you food, my dear Chrysoula, but to me, he brought God".

Constantine's eyes became misty, and tears began to fall. Everyone was now becoming tearful, along with him. He took a deep breath and continued:

"Three days later, I moved into the apartment. Crazy John had helped me carry all my things. And when the transporter purposely dropped an innuendo because of my behavior and the manner that I spoke, Crazy John stunned him, by pointing out to him that, as a person who systematically lived adulterously and behaved brutally towards his own two children, he had no right to make such remarks about me. The transporter was shocked by these revealing words, and he immediately stopped his sarcasm. I of course was under the impression that the two of them were acquainted, but was taken aback when the transporter turned towards Crazy John as he was leaving, and said:

"What are you anyway? Some kind of charmed one?"

"Yes George, I have been 'charmed' - by our Christ's love", the fool replied.

He even asked the transporter to stop sorrowing Christ, because, in spite of his overall behavior, Christ had healed his daughter Theodora from a very serious ailment. George then departed, with his head lowered..... He is the gentleman who is sitting over there with his wife, and he can confirm the incident I just described.  I was impressed by that dialogue, but at the time I had dismissed it as the ravings of a fool.

So, on the evening of that same day, I dressed up in women's clothes as I normally did, and I went to a familiar transvestite haunt, on the main highway. You can imagine my surprise when I spotted Crazy John watching me from the opposite corner of the block. The thought crossed my mind that he was seeking erotic companionship. But then, how did he find me?... The fool must have followed me (I thought to myself), and now he would go and tell what he saw to old Chrysoula... Oh well, I guess I will be searching for the accommodation again... As all these thoughts were running through my mind, a prospective "customer" stopped in front of me. Just then, like a coiled spring, the fool jumped up and started to yell from across the road:

"He's got AIDS!!  He's sick and he will pass it on to you!!  Go away!! Go away!!"

I was taken by surprise by the erratic behavior of a man whom I hardly knew. Naturally, the prospective customer left. Then I started to curse Crazy John... I became hysterical...This went on for almost a month. Until this day, I will never know how he managed to discover those illicit haunts. One evening I actually beat him, and in fact quite severely.

But just imagine my surprise, when, every night after I got home, I would find an envelope containing almost double the money that I used to earn from my filthy activities, and on it would be written: "A blessing, for the servant of God, Constantine".  I didn't know what to make of all those weird things I was witnessing. In the afternoons, I would go for a walk and whenever I'd see Crazy John, I would get angry. But he would say

"My dear Constantine, stop sorrowing Christ and our Holy Mother, Who is mourning incessantly for you".

I had even contemplated leaving the apartment, but something was holding me there. The other transvestites would ask me:

"Hey, could he by chance be in love with you, which is why he's acting so weird?"

"No", I'd reply, "he doesn't have any such intentions."

To make a long story short, I decided to invite Crazy John to my place, to put an end to all these things. I was hoping that someone had been putting him up to it purposely, just to drive me insane. Crazy John responded to my invitation affirmatively, despite having been humiliated by me so many times. I don't know what came over me that evening, but I cleaned the house, cooked something light, and sat down to do some reading. I was leafing through a magazine with assorted material, and an article caught my attention, about a certain Elder Porphyry who served in the chapel of a hospital in central Omonia Square of Athens.

I hadn't finished reading the article when I heard Crazy John knocking on my door. As soon as I opened the door, he said:

"Be blessed, my Constantine, in the present on and in the one to come".

It was the first time that I had ever heard such a greeting, but it was also the first time that I had ever heard a demonic voice speaking from inside me:

"Have you come to my house here as well, you crazy old man, to drive me out?  I'm not alone here - I have 365 other friends!  I don't intend to go away! You'd better be the one to leave, otherwise, I'll kill you!" Crazy John then  pulled out a Crucifix from his coat and raised it in front of me, and began to say:

"In the name of the Holy and Homoousion Trinity...." but I didn't hear anything after that, because I lost consciousness...

When I recovered, I saw the old fool standing there, smiling at me. I felt really happy that he was there, but didn't know the reason I felt that way.

"I brought you a gift, my Constantine. It is the Book of Psalms - a book that was written by the king and Prophet, David."

"What's going on? What happened?" I asked.

"My Constantine, you have received an enormous blessing. Christ has chosen you. He is preparing you for very important feats. However, you must be prepared to put up a serious fight, because what you have inside you is not about to leave very easily."

If you could only have seen the way that Crazy John's face glowed, you would have understood why I was so terrified. I had always thought that all the talk about demons was sheer fiction. I believed that they were just an invention thought up by priests and religion, intended to scare people and to extract easy money from them, so that they would enjoy their own lives, get rich, etc..  And yet, there I was, a living witness of their insidious activity against humans. Crazy John became a brother and a friend from that day on. That very same night, I gathered all the women's clothes and shoes, and cosmetics that I had, and threw them into the garbage can. The next day, I changed my phone number. With the help of that fool, I even secured a job in the Accounts department of a large company. The owner of the company was a friend of Crazy John; he actually hired me with a satisfactory salary. At the same time, I would go with Crazy John - on an almost daily basis - to a church high up on Hymettus Mountain, where the priest would read the benedictions of Saint Basil (exorcisms) over me, while Crazy John would read Psalms. I cannot describe what I went through. What I can now shout out, thanks to this experience, is that homosexuality (and prostitution in general) is not an "otherness" or an illness; it is a formidable demon, which infuriates the Almighty. What I also want to tell you, is that our holy Church possesses the weapons that are able to exterminate all those things that our modern society nowadays believes (as I used to believe) to be "nonsense".

The prayers of our neighborhood fool saved me. My acquaintance with him changed my entire life. What I experienced over these last few years in this blessed neighborhood constitutes a true miracle of the Triadic and only true God. I escaped from the clutches of a true Hell, and I am now living in a world that I had never lived in - not even in my wildest dreams.

With the constant support of this saintly man - who was anything but a fool - I came to understand my mistake; I realized various things and situations that comprise the foundations of our society; I became familiar with the love of Christ. I had been functioning like one who is addicted to a toxic substance; I couldn't be told apart from a drug addict; I was living in a nightmare, which that wonderful saint of God - Crazy John - put an end to. 

But I don't want to tire you any further with my story. After all, I am only recording my entire story in detail, as old Anastasy asked me to.  I also apologize to you all, and to the innumerable victims that I had lured into the meshes of the iniquity that I was trapped in. I apologize to my beloved Katerina, who has opened her embrace to the most sinful person in the universe; who shut her ears to all the unfavorable comments and justified criticism, and has accepted my marriage proposal to her.  She has accepted to live with a zero, with an outcast, a moron.  This holy man, Crazy John, had invested in this marriage with his prayers and his tears.

Constantine's last words were lost in his sobs. Also crying with him was Father Vassily, who had run up to hug him, as did all the other churchgoers.

"Father Vassily, I'm thinking of moving out of the neighborhood - not for me, but for Katerina", Constantine murmured falteringly, with difficulty.

Father Vassily then spoke up and said:

"Dear brethren, Constantine has just expressed the desire to leave our neighborhood. What do you say? Are we going to leave the living testimony of a miracle by our departed brother John - Constantine - but also our own Katerina, to leave?"

"No! No!" they all shouted.....

Dreams and visions

 It is not easy to distinguish most of the time whether dreams or visions come from God, from demonic energy, or are simply natural events.

  This is why special care is required to accept them or not, something that most of our teaching and ascetic teachers have pointed out to us.

  Thus, according to these fathers, the dream, the vision, and the miracle still do not appear clearly before us, but their interpretation and evaluation are not done by themselves, but depend on our own circumstances: depending on the degree  We also have the evaluation of the above phenomena.  This means that the interpretation we give may be the reason for the progress or setback in our spiritual life, as the interpretation will be colored by the content of our hearts.  Thus, it is not sometimes that a vision, for example, is considered to come from God, when in fact it is a demonic inspiration, rather than the other way around.  The first reason for these issues, therefore, is, as we have said, the virtue of distinguishing them.

Photios Kontoglou experience

 

by Photios Kontoglou

On Pascha Monday, in the evening after midnight, before fore lying down to sleep I went out into the little garden behind my house. The sky was dark and covered with stars. I seemed to see it for the first time, and a distant psalmody seemed to descend from it. My lips murmured, very softly: "Exalt ye the Lord our God, and worship the footstool of His feet." A holy man once told me that during these hours the heavens are opened. The air exhaled a fragrance of the flowers and herbs I had planted. "Heaven and earth are filled with the glory of the Lord."

I could well have remained there alone until break of day. I was as if without a body and without any bond to the earth. But fearing that my absence would disturb those with me in the house, I returned and lay down.

Sleep had not really taken possession of me; I do not know whether I was awake or asleep, when suddenly a strange man rose up before me. He was as pale as a dead man. His eyes were as if open, and he looked at me in terror. His face was like a mask, like a mummy's. His glistening, dark yellow skin was stretched tight over his dead man's head with all its cavities. He was as if panting. In one hand he held some kind of bizarre object which I could not make out; the other hand was clutching his breast as if he were suffering.

This creature filled me with terror. I looked at him and he looked at me without speaking, as if he were waiting for me to recognize him, strange as he was. And a voice said to me: "It is so-and-so!" And I recognized him immediately. Then he opened his mouth and sighed. His voice came from far away; it came up as from a deep well.

He was in great agony, and I suffered for him. His hands, his feet, his eyes—everything showed that he was suffering. In my despair I was going to help him, but he gave me a sign with his hand to stop. He began to groan in such a way that I froze. Then he said to me: "I have not come; I have been sent. I shake without stop; I am dizzy. Pray God to have pity on me. I want to die but I cannot. Alas! Everything you told me before is true. Do you remember how, several days before my death, you came to see me and spoke about religion? There were two other friends with me, unbelievers like myself. You spoke, and they mocked. When you left, they said: 'What a pity! He is intelligent and he believes the stupid things old women believe!'

"Another time, and other times too, I told you: 'Dear Photios, save up money, or else you will die a pauper. Look a my riches, and I want more of them.' You told me then: 'Have you signed a pact with death, that you can live as many year as you want and enjoy a happy old age?'

"And I replied: 'You will see to what an age I will live Now I am 75; 1 will live past a hundred. My children are free from want. My son earns a lot of money, and I have married my daughter to a rich Ethiopian. My wife and I have more money than we need. I am not like you who listen to what the priests say: "A Christian ending to our life ..." and the rest. What have you to gain from a Christian ending? Better a full pocket and no worries ... Give alms? Why did your so merciful God create paupers? Why should I feed them? And they ask you, in order to go to Paradise, to feed idlers! Do you want to talk about Paradise? You know that I am the son of a priest and that I know well all these tricks. That those who have no brains believe them is well enough, but you who have a mind have gone astray. If you continue to live as you arc doing, you will die before me, and you will be responsible for those you have led astray. As a physician I tell you and affirm that I will live a hundred and ten years ...'"

After saying all this, he turned this way and that as if he were on a grill. I heard his groans: "Ah! Ouch! Oh! Oh!" He was silent for a moment, and then continued: "This is what I said, and in a few days I was dead! I was dead, and I lost the wager! What confusion was mine, what horror! Lost, I descended into the abyss. What suffering I have had up to now, what agony! Everything you told me was true. You have won the wager!

"When I was in the world where you are now, I was an intellectual, I was a physician. I had learned how to speak and to be listened to, to mock religion, to discuss whatever falls under the senses. And now I see that everything I called stories, myths, paper lanterns—is true. The agony which I am experiencing now—this is what is true, this is the worm that never sleeps, this is the gnashing of teeth."

After having spoken thus, he disappeared. I still heard his groans, which gradually faded away. Sleep had begun to take possession of me, when I felt an icy hand touch me. I opened my eyes and saw him again before me. This time he was more horrible and smaller in body. He had become like a nursing infant, with a large old man's head which he was shaking.

"In a short time the day will break, and those who have sent me will come to seek me!"

"Who are they?"

He spoke some confused words which I could not make out. Then he added: "There where I am, there are also many who mock you and your faith. Now they understand that their spiritual darts have not gone beyond the cemetery. There are both those you have done good to, and those who have slandered you. The more you forgive them, the more they detest you. Man is evil. Instead of rejoicing him, kindness makes him bitter, because it makes him feel his defeat. The state of these latter is worse than mine. They cannot leave their dark prison to come and find you as I have done. They are severely tormented, lashed by the whip of God's love, as one of the Saints has said [St. Isaac the Syrian]. The world is something else entirely from what we see! Our intellect shows it to us in reverse. Now we understand that our intellect was only stupid, our conversations were spiteful meanness, our joys were lies and illusions.

"You, who bear God in your hearts, Whose word is Truth, the only Truth—you have won the great wager between believers and unbelievers. This wager I have lost. I tremble, I sigh, and I find no rest. In truth, there is no repentance in hell. Woe to those who walk as I did when I was on earth. Our flesh was drunk and mocked those who believed in God and eternal life; almost everyone applauded us. They treated you as mad, as imbeciles. And the more you accept our mockeries, the more our rage increases.

"Now I see how much the conduct of evil men grieved you. How could you bear with such patience the poisoned darts which issued from our lips which treated you as hypocrites, mockers of God, and deceivers of the people. If these evil men who are still on earth would see where I am, if only they were in my place, they would tremble for everything they are doing. I would like to appear to them and tell them to change their path, but I do not have the permission to do so, just as the rich man did not have it when he begged Abraham to send Lazarus the pauper. Lazarus was not sent, so that those who sinned might be worthy of punishment and those who went on the ways of God might be worthy of salvation.

"He that is unrighteous, let him do unrighteousness yet more; and he that is filthy, let him he made filthy yet more. And he that is righteous, let him do righteousness yet more; and he that is holy, let him be made holy yet more" (Apoc. 22:11).

With these words he disappeared 

Satanist Zelensky

 

Will happen

 

Fatima, Lourdes - false Marian apparitions

they were Spirit who tempted our savior in the desert has risen up maliciously

against Mankind and the church seeking the Perdition of the faithful with every

trick The Same Spirit to whom God said I will put enmity between you and the

woman and between your seed and her seed hates the holy thotocus for her role in

the process of our salvation and Universal restoration because you praise and intercedes on our

behalf for spiritual gifts from her son and our Lord the evil has devised

countless ways to blaspheme her and to erase her spiritual presence from the

minds of Christians thus Protestant Traditions which have downplayed and

often ignored her unical role in our Salvation do not venerate the holy

virgin deny her ever virginity claiming that she gave birth to other children as

well and even deny Christ's Supernatural birth on the other hand in places where she is

still venerated the devil has set up his traps and false prophets propagate

errors in her name unusual events displaying a supernatural character and

calling people to repent have been received as Revelations from God by

people who did not detect the devil's deception and that these Revelations are

different from True Orthodox teachings and tradition deception became widespread many clergy

have fallen in the devil's trap and officially approved these manifestations as being authentic

spectacular operations in the form of the mother of God occurred repeatedly in the west leading to Serious errors and

affecting greatly the Catholic Church during these so-called theophanese

miraculous healings and other apparently Supernatural signs occurred winning the

trust of late people and ecclesiastical authorities churches and religious settlements were

erected on the site of the operations which are visited by countless Pilgrims from all over the world every year

many fight for particularly those who were miraculously cured in the innocence

of their hearts piously cherish these dubious apparitions and consider them

authentic following these miraculous apparitions the Roman Catholic Church adopted a

series of damaging devotions and erroneous dogmas such a deception is the Sabbath in

privilege or the sign of Salvation which has been explicitly confirmed by Clement

the servant Pius V Gregory the 13th Paul V and Pius X and which is based on a

promise made to Simon stock the general Superior of the carmelites by a Marian

operation in 1251 Simon stock was later canonized by the Catholic Church

an early Chronicle states that to him appeared the Blessed Virgin with a multitude of angels holding the scapular

of the order in her Blessed Hands and saying this will be a privilege for you

and for all carmelites that he who dies in this will not suffer Eternal fire

a scapular is a type of apron consisting of large pieces of cloth front and back

joined over the shoulders with strips of cloth in 1613 Pope Paul V issued an

official statement saying which is permitted to preach that the Blessed Virgin will Aid The Souls of the

brothers and sisters of the confraternity of the Blessed Virgin of Mount Carmen after their death by her

suffrages and marriage and by her special protection especially on the day

of Saturday which is the day specially dedicated by the church to the same Blessed Virgin Mary if they have learned

a habit the scapular during life the sign of Salvation or the Sabbath in

privilege promised to Saint Simon for wearing the scapular was mentioned Again

by The Apparition at the Lord in 1857. the devotion was reconfirmed in 1876

Estelle forget from peleboizon France claimed to have witnessed a series of

apparitions and during the ninth operation on September 9

1876 the Virgin Mary said pointing at the scapular I love this devotion I will

be honored in this at the age of 33 Estelle forget had been

diagnosed with pulmonary tuberculosis her condition deteriorated and the

doctors presumed her to be at the point of death during the night or the 14th of February

according to her she was the object of an apparition of the Blessed Virgin who

promised to heal her which actually happened after five days to prove The

Apparition was of divine origin the main purpose of the operation was to

make popular the devotion for the scapular and the Sacred Heart of Jesus an image imprinted on one of the corners

of the white piece of cloth the operation was wearing the lady told Esther that nothing

pleased her more than seeing how my children wear it I have chosen you to Proclaim my glory

and to spread this devotion The Apparition said then urged Estelle to go

to the priest to ask him to help her spread this devotion

it should be noted that during the first five Visions Estelle saw also the devil

which frightened her very much but the presumed Apparition of the mother of God admonished him and the devil disappeared

one of the tricks the devil uses to confuse the faithful to win their trust

to sow the seeds of superstition and spread false teachings is to appear both

as himself and as some Divine figure the trick was so well performed that

Estelle had no doubt that the mother of God Appears to her full real and saved

her from the menacing demon the result was that what the operation of the Holy

virgin said and demanded was received as sacred commands

in 1892 Pope Leo the 30th who had fought trust in the operations of the mother of

God at peleboisa declared certain indulgences to pilgrims who visited the

place and approved related devotions to our lady in an attempt to mitigate the severity

of the superstation prevailing in the Catholic World regarding the wearing of

the scapular as it had been established in 1613 Pope Pius XI published a letter

pettising with them in 1922 stating that although it is very true that the

Blessed Virgin loves all who love her nevertheless those who wish to have the

Blessed Mother as a helper in the hour of death must in life married such

signal favor by abstaining from sin and laboring in her honor

but this interpretation of the original message from Heaven did not stop the error that had been propagated for three

centuries neither could change the shadowy origin of the message which aroused right in the faithful

another Grievous Superstition based on faith no Talisman was spread by

Catherine labor Sanctified in 1947 and approved by the Catholic church between

1830 1831 the Virgin Mary appears to her five times and entrusted her the mission

of making and distributing a medal to the world on one side of the meadow there are 12

Stars encircling the letter M which is surmounted by a bar and a cross

beneath the end the rather Heart of Jesus the one crowned with thorns and

that of Mary's pierced with a sword on the other side of the Miraculous Medal as it has been called are the

following words of Mary conceived without sin pray for us who have records

to you this short prayer which derives from a heretical belief spread among the

faithful and led to the adoption of the Immaculate Conception Dogma by the Catholic Church

the mother's strength and the cult of the Holy hearts of Jesus and Mary which

is another devotion entirely for into the holy tradition and has nothing to do

with the true Christian spirituality according to Catherine Labor's testimony

the matter of God told her that all who will wear the medal around the neck with

confidence and say that short prayer will receive great Graces except that

any prayer which contains heretical teachings in this case the heresy of the Immaculate Conception sadly planted by

the father of lie attracts the presence of the one who inspired the heresy

the vatic can encourage the faithful Catholics to wear the Miraculous Medal to receive great Graces and many chose

the Talisman over the Holy Cross in a display of fake piety

another heretical practice is the devotion of the Sacred Heart of Jesus introduced by Pope Pius XI in the

miseranticism encyclical the faithful word told that this devotion was a form

of piety towards the carnal Heart of Jesus a symbol of his love offended by

the sins of men which necessitates a reparatory devotion the events which occurred at Alert in

1858 falling the same category of questionable apparitions which led to

the adoption of heretical beliefs which tied the faithful to the devil with invisible wires the girl Bernadette had

18 Visions in 1858 on the day of the Annunciation the operation of the Virgin

Mary welcomed her with the words I am the Immaculate Conception

this message repeated in a presumably miraculous manner confirmed the new

Dogma adopted by the Roman Catholic church and contributed to the spreading

and planting of that heresy in the heart of the Catholic faithful many miraculous skewers were reported to

have occurred at the site of the operation the most spectacular ones being recoveries from paralysis which

made quite an impression on the pilgrims failing to see the deception the Roman

Catholic Church introduced the heresy of the Immaculate Conception which was inspired by the devil in the exorcisms

for wording of devils she who by her humility and from the first moment of

her Immaculate Conception crushed your proud head in the Orthodox Church when the exorcism

prayers of Saint Basil are red got the father is invoked to admonish the devil

to get out of his created being the Roman Catholic Church invokes the

name of the mother of God to drive out the devil and the exorcism prayers which

included the heresy of the Immaculate Conception render inefficient the effort

to save the human from the Devil the mother of God appeared also in 1917 at

Fatima in Spain and asked the Devotion to her Immaculate Heart to be

established all over the world she promised salvation to those who embraced it and those Souls will be beloved of

God like flowers arranged by her to Adorn his throne

just like in the previous cases the spirit of pride is hidden in the promises made by the operation at Fatima

another devotion is that to the Sacred Heart of Jesus reinforced and proliferated by Catherine labor as a

result of the revelations she had in 1831. it originates in a so-called theophany

which occurred in 1673 at para lemonial witnessed by Margaret Marie alakok later

canonized as a saint this Mystic claimed Jesus himself had

appeared to her and asked her to tell people to show Devotion to his heart and

have it depicted as a carnal heart wherever this image will be displayed for veneration he will share gifts and

Graces again the subtle trap hidden in this request went unnoticed and the Roman

Catholic Church adopted the devotion of the Sacred Heart without hesitation

in 1854 Pope Pius II on the basis of the visions of Catherine labor adopted the

heretical dogma of the Immaculate Conception condemned built by the Orthodox church and reputable Catholic

theologians in 1870 the same Pope proclaimed the

dogma of the papal infallibility the Immaculate Conception is an old

belief that the Virgin Mary was born without ancestral sin which was rekindled by the western church in the

8th century this belief contradicts the consecrated Dogma According to which the sin or

vowel for parents is transmitted to all mankind without exception and it is

supported neither by the Holy Scripture nor the holy tradition on the contrary the text of the

scriptures State clearly that everyone Bears the consequences of the ancestral sin except the Son of God who was born

from the father without a mother and from a mother without a father

the Immaculate Conception was rejected by Thomas Aquinas and Bernard of clairvo

none of the church fathers shared this belief and blessed Augustine the great

Theologian of the West condemned it the promoting of teachings received

through unusual operations with Supernatural characteristics indicate their unclean origin Our Savior warns us

for false Messiahs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and

wonders to deceive if possible even the elect while Apostle James asks can both

fresh water and salt water flow from the same spring this fake the orphanese were

preceded by spectacular meteorological phenomena whirlwinds Thunders Lightnings

figures in the shape of angels luminous flashes which irradiated hit signs and

miracles happen before the eyes of large crowds of people gathered piously at the

sides of apparitions in 1917 at Fatima a crowd of 70 000 witnessed a solar

phenomenon after a period of rain the dark clouds broke and the sun appeared

as an OPAC disk then it began to whirl in zigzag casting multi-colored lights

across the landscape the people and the surrounding clouds after short pause it danced again then

it began to descend towards the Earth many people were crying out it's a

miracle While others were reciting the Creed the phenomenon lasted for about 10

minutes then the sun returned to the sky Lucia dos Santos one of the three

children who claimed to have seen Our Lady of Fatima reported seeing a

panorama Visions including those of Jesus Our Lady of Sorrows Our Lady of

Mount Carmel and Saint Joseph blessing the people in 1846 in the village La Salette the

presumed Apparition of the mother of God revealed to the little girl Melanie covert that the clergy would fall and

many people would lose faith it also made some unfounded predictions

regarding the end of the world which could make the faithful distrust authentic predictions

for the scenes committed by people the vision revealed that in the year 1864

Lucifer together with a large number of demons will be unless from hell and in

the year 1865 there will be desecration of holy places in convents the flowers

of the church WIll decompose and the devil will make himself like the king of

all Hearts The Apparition announced the Antichrist would be born about the same

time more than a century has passed and there is no sign the Antichrist has been born

these Revelations raise suspicion because they indicate precise dates when

certain events will occur unlike the tradition of the old and the new testament which never recorded the date

when a divine revelation or prophecy would be fulfilled regarding the fall of

the clergy indeed in the east and west many among them fell but not all of them

then why should they all endure oblique the strangeness of these messages

resides in that when speaking of the Antichrist no word of the coming of

Christ as a judge is said these so-called theophonists and Angela

phones which led to the adoption of heretical teachings like those mentioned previously generally occurred in the

presence of children or teenagers who were deliberately chosen by the devil

for their innocence to give the illusion of Holiness to these apparitions for the

same purpose the devil used faithful impressionable old people who showed a

disposition to believe anything of a supernatural origin in all cases the operations won the

trust of the visionnaires by promising them rewards flattering their ego and

starring in them pride and vainglory the apparitions also communicated

Secrets which the visionnaires were not allowed to disclose to anyone enslaving

them more to the Fallen spirit manifestations of this kind are so much

different from the true authentic the orphan as we know from the church tradition and lives of saints in some

cases to convince people the operations and prophecies are from God and not from

some questionable entity the devil uses the sign of the cross traditionally a

vision is considered objective when perceived externally by seeing or hearing or subjective when coming from

an inner image by using one's imagination and reason most times the

prophets seem to have had inner and pure intellectual Visions through which God

communicated with them without using any materialized image that can be seen in

the words used to announce the message from God this is what the Lord says no

Revelation from God was ever made to a Prophet by flattering him promising him

Heavenly words arising his body died and leading him to believe he was pure and

that he would receive a place of honor in heaven questionable apparitions of the mother

of god with miraculous events which became famous all over the world occurred also in France in the village

of La Salette in 1846 and Pond Maine in 1871.

in Spain but Fatima in 1917 1921 and 1943

between 1936 1965 71 apparitions were

reported to have occurred in Brittany France occasionally the visionnaires received

messages for hierarchs to deceive them as well such a case is that of a paralyzed woman

from Portugal alexandrina Maria Dacosta in 1936 during the Civil War Jesus

appears to her in natural dimensions and told her in the past I asked for the

consecration of the world to my Divine heart now I requested for the Immaculate

Heart of my holy mother in Rome the Holy Father will consecrate the world to her

and refer to her as the queen of the world our matter of victory

because the requests were not carried out they were renewed the following year

this time the pope was warned that if he did not comply a terrible Scorch would

sweep over the world and yet again the command was ignored in October 1938 the

same Apparition of Jesus Promised the pope would be carried straight to heaven without suffering the Sorrows of

purgatory if he consecrated the world to marry his Immaculate Heart

the message meant to tempt the pontiff promoted the Devotion to the Immaculate

Heart and confirmed the dogma of purgatory which is condemned by the tradition of the Orthodox Church

following these Visions which continue to appear in 1941 and 1942 on December 8

1942 Pope Pius XII consecrated the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary in front

of a crowd of 80 000 people gathered at Saint Peter's Basilica

in 1952 the same Pope consecrated Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary as asked

by The Apparition in 1929 who had promised to prevent the spreading of the

errors committed by that country this special consecration was not aimed

at removing communism from Russia but at converting it and extending the

influence of the Catholic church in that country during a radio broadcast to Portugal

that intention was expressed in the act of consecration to Mary's Immaculate Heart issued on 31st of October 1942 by

Pope Pius XII on the 25th anniversary of the Fatima operations

he accused Russia and the other Orthodox countries of heresy and Discord for

having broken from the fold of Christ and pleaded for their return give peace

to the people separated by error and Schism particularly those who have

special Devotion to you bring them back to the one fold of Christ under the one

true Shepherd furthermore consecrating the whole world to the Immaculate Heart

of Mary including the Jews Muslims and pagans without their consent is an

innovation made by the Catholic Church which runs counter to the Evangelical

Spirit of the Holy tradition any deviation from the truth is an error

and any error has a shadowy origin no matter how it was transmitted the errors

the devil spreads are meant to win the trust of the Fateful of whole Christian

communities to compromise the salvation of their souls as a result the faithful

who fell in the devil's trap and the cleric who supported these obscure and

shadowy operations bear the Seal of Satan a heresy accepted by a community

of faithful with the blessing of their clerics attracts more dangerous heresies

which God allows as a result of the sinful state of the world God tests people's devotion and declare

just discernment regarding the preservation of faith and their ability to guide people to the truth

sadly many stumble and leaders of the flock of Christ allow wolves in ship

clothes to enter the shelter there will come a time when those who

now thirst for false theorphanies will see that the operations they trusted had

in fact goat horns the Roman Catholic Church too eagerly approved the

countless operations adopted new dogmas and devotions based on the messages

transmitted by them and canonized the visionnaires seeing the many traps of the devil to

deceive people and that these seemingly miraculous events are in reality tricks

of the devil one can legitimately ask how we can know which Miracles are

genuine if they still occur and how we can recognize them without doubt the holy spirit is present

in the world today and he can manifest under any form in any circumstances and

against the laws of nature it is also true that Miracles have become rare and

some Charisma such as speaking in tongues making prophecies resurrecting

the dead have stopped nowadays holy people are scarce and the gift of

Performing Miracles diminished the absence of Supernatural interventions

from God can be explained as follows the countless Miracles performed by our

savior and his Apostles or Saints and holy people in the early times of

Christianity were necessary to strengthen the new faith and prove its

divine origin once the faith was established through dogmas and the sacraments of the church

Miracles were no longer needed just as a growing tree does not need Stakes any

longer and yet to the faithful what Miracle is greater than the changing of the bread

and wine into the body and blood of Christ or the holy water which does not

spoil or the Holy Fire descending on the day preceding pasca in Jerusalem

God wants people to have a pure Faith coming from tireless Adoration of the almighty and without expecting to see

Miracles all day long if Miracles happened all the time we

would lose faith and the salvation of our souls would be endangered Christ himself says unless you people

see signs and wonders you will never believe and to Thomas he tells have you believed

because you have seen me blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed

what kind of Fate would that be if we always need signs and miracles to admit

God's existence and omnipotence what we really need for our Salvation

has been told already and all the means to acquire eternal life can be found in

the church at the same time our Lord has warned us about the signs of the times and the

devil's machinations at the end of the world there is nothing to be added to our

faith to be complete no new Dogma or innovation is to be expected coming from

Revelations or Supernatural operations for our salvation

however through Miracles can happen in our Everyday Life by the intervention of

Divine Providence but many fail to acknowledge them and in

most cases they say it was Hazard or luck if the orphanies were to happen nowadays

they would be very different from the devil's tricks they would be in line

with the truth and the teachings of the Orthodox Church without any deviations Innovations spectacular manifestations

and lures to thoughts of vainglory false Miracles and your furnace received

mentally bear the Seal of a luciferian spirit without any doubt and The Traps

the devil sets up are meant to corrupt Our Fate the devil's tracks can be recognized for

they do not testify Christ as the Son of God and Redeemer of the world are always

accompanied by Sky Visions visual auditory or sensory phenomena which

betray their unclean origin now that true Miracles have become rare

the more we approach the end times God allows the Demonic operations to

manifest more often and boldly because of the many sins people commit

humbleness prayer with faith the power of the Holy Cross and calling upon the

name of Christ can blow away the false miracles of the deceiver Saints shamed and drove away the devil

with their humbleness every time he tried to deceive them we know from Patrick on the story of a

Hermit to whom the devil appeared as Christ in bright light and told him I am

Christ but the old man closed his eyes and when the devil asked why do you close your

eyes for I am Christ The Hermit answered curse be upon you for I believe my

Christ who warned us if anyone says to you look here is the Messiah do not

believe it the devil upon hearing this disappeared the same patriarchon recorded the story

of a brother to whom the devil appeared as an angel of Light saying I am Gabriel

and I was sent to bring you good news but the brother humbled himself and

answered you are sent to the wrong person I am a sinner and unworthy to see

an angel when the brother said that the devil went away if the visionnaires called

upon the name of Christ or made the sign of the cross when they witness apparitions the devil would disappear

and be sent to the pits of hell regrettably many faithful people and

clergy lack the mystical understanding of the Saints and cannot tell the truth

from the LIE for these reasons during these troubled times the devil can freely sow his weeds

while people pay attention to him and turn away from the true path to God